Summer Prep: The Substitute Binder

It’s in-service week. You have multiple meetings during the day, and your room to get set up by Meet the Teacher night in three days. Oh, and you’re emergency sub plans are due by Friday!

Sound familiar? One of my goals this summer has been to tackle those things I know will be due in those first few weeks of school while I have more time to do it. The first of those has been my substitute binder. Free resources are linked at the bottom of this post.

What I started to include in my binder because of the great resources I read:

The Great American novel, detailing every moment, every student, and every possible thing that could go wrong. (Hey, it’s summer, right?)

Page 2: Map of the school, with the staff restroom, vending, specials classes, and my duty marked. My principal sends out a floor plan every year, so I put it in PowerPoint and used drawing tools to mark it up.